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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (100923)	5/5/2005 2:32:00 AM
From: Naomi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 225578

We had a strange happening in February when we all went out to celebrate my youngest son's birthday. We went to a very pricey steakhouse and there were fourteen of us including my son's three kids, two boys, 17 and 11 and daughter 4 and our great grandson who was only four months old. At the end of our dinner our waitress came over and handed my DIL some money and was told it was for the children from another patron dining there. We asked who it was and she said she was not supposed to tell us but went and asked if she could. Came back and said he wanted us to know that our children were the best behaved that he had ever enjoyed being around at dinner and he wanted to reward them for being so mannerly and quiet. Even the baby, though awake, was quiet and looking around at his surroundings. Soon after as we were leaving the restaurant, we and the children went over to thank him and the man got up and complimented us personally on them again and said we were one of the nicest families he had seen in a restaurant in many years and they ate out all the time. Yes, we were very proud to hear that. I am very proud of my children for their parenting skills and teaching their children the skills they learned at home. My first outing after the birth of each of them was to go out to dinner when the new baby was two weeks old and take all the children with us. We never had a problem with them behaving and were always proud to take them anywhere. Of course the older ones were told before we entered that they should behave or suffer the consequences. I certainly didn't want to spend my time correcting them and not enjoying my meal. We have had only one grandson who has acted out in a restaurant before and my husband grabbed him up, with his Dad right behind him, and took him outside and they gave him an attitude adjustment and he was very quiet when they returned. That seemed to work and he has never misbehaved in our presence again in a public place. I do believe it is up to the parents or even the grandparents to make sure their children or grandchildren behave even at home at dinner time. If out to dinner I think the manager should ask them to leave so as not to disturb people out to enjoy a nice meal without having to listen to any of that. I think that should embarrass them enough to do something about it or not take them out to dinner again. I know it would have terribly embarrassed me if that ever had happened to us. But I also know that some parents would get huffy about that nowadays as they don't seem to care about the standards we learned when growing up. We are just too old fashioned for their beliefs. I can say I don't mind being called "Old Fashioned" and wear the label proudly.